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125:. In 2013 in a separate case, Dunn achieved a $ 4.4 million settlement in the case of Marine Sergeant Manual "Manny" Loggins, a Marine stationed at Camp Pendleton, who was shot and killed by Orange County Sheriff's Deputy Darren Sandberg in the presence of Loggins' children.
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